Rock & Graner
Rock & Graner was the name of what is probably the oldest manufacturer of tin toys . The company was based in Biberach an der Riss in Upper Swabia in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The company emerged in 1813 from the older Wißhack trading company in Biberach an der Riss . The founders Christoph Gottfried Rock and his brother-in-law Johann Wilhelm Graner produced dollhouses , money boxes , tin castles, carriages, carriages and ships. In 1826 the company was managed by the brothers Julius and Heinrich Graner after Rock left in 1825. By 1837 the company had over 100 employees at times. At the London World's Fair in 1851, the company's products were perceived as "diverse" and "tasteful".
After Heinrich Graner's death on June 6, 1877, Oskar Graner became his successor on June 25. From the takeover by Oscar Egelhaaf on January 14, 1896, the company was called Rock u. Graner's successor ( R & GN ). During this time, the production of trains in nominal sizes 0 , 1 and 2 began, some of which were operated with a clockwork or a friction drive. In addition, a utility model for the remote control of model railroad switches using a combination of mechanics and pneumatics was soon registered.
In 1904 production was stopped due to a lack of orders. Another reason may have been the lack of a switch from artisanal production to industrial production, which other companies also missed at the time. So the company Rock u. Graner's successor deleted on April 27, 1907. The company's equipment and tools went to entrepreneur Georg Kühnrich from Waldheim in 1905 , who continued to use them to build railways in nominal sizes 1 and 0. Under the company logo “Mech. Toys ”from 1922 onwards he offered trains and cars with clockwork. The company's history ends with his death on July 21, 1929 and the last exhibition at the autumn fair.
In 1992, two sample books from the period between 1875 and 1880 appeared in second-hand bookshops . They make it possible to assign other products to the company that may no longer be recognized by their trademark - the "heraldic, stylized, soaring and crowned beaver holding a flag with the inscription R. and GN / 1813 in its front paws."
further reading
- Christian Väterlein: Biberacher tin toys. Sample books from Rock and Graner from around 1875/1880 with an introduction, published by Christian Väterlein 1997, ISBN 978-3-89511-013-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Little Father, p. 40.
- ↑ a b collect-sammler.de: Tin Toys Manufacturers - A Little History of Tin Toys , accessed on January 3, 2010
- ↑ Collect-sammler.de: Rock & Graner ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed January 3, 2010
- ↑ a b c d Offer of the 410th art and antiques auction of the Stuttgart auction house Nagel: Duck painters and other specialists of the 19th century: ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b c d Peter Ertel: Blech- und Spielwarenfabrik Georg Kühnrich ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed January 3, 2010
- ↑ Wilbert Swinkels: The toy catalog collector, Rock & Graner screw steamer with steam engine , accessed on January 3, 2010
- ↑ a b c d e f HistoryToy: [1] , accessed on January 3, 2010
- ↑ Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Description of the Oberamt Biberach , JG Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1837, p. 74
- ^ F. Rinderknecht: Mechanische Zentralstellwerke , April 2001, accessed on January 3, 2010
